Prior to 1975 informations could not be passed back and forth between summary conviction courts without waivers being signed in certain cases. Prior to plea any summary conviction court could deal with the information. If the accused pleaded not guilty the summary conviction court had to waive its jurisdiction to another if the second summary conviction court was to deal with the information. In the case of a guilty plea the information could not be waived (Regina v. Larson) 1958 (1958 CanLII 26 (SCC), 121 C.C.C. 204). It was the information and the proper executed waiver that gave the receiving summary conviction court jurisdiction. The provision requiring a waiver has now been repealed and any summary conviction court has jurisdiction. None of the other provisions relating to the information insofar as they apply to these cases has been changed and it appears to me that it is the information alone which now gives the summary conviction court jurisdiction to act.
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